providing additional information to the Commissioner – if needed – to help identify the root cause of the problem and possible solutions.

Doing things better

Regulation can be important in protecting people and in protecting the public interest. Most regulation has that intention. However, poorly designed regulation and inefficient implementation can also:

make it more difficult to do business;

require people to do unnecessary and costly things, in some cases for several regulators; and

waste peoples’ time – things take unreasonably long.

If requirements are unnecessary, excessive and costly, people can’t use this time and resources to create business and employ Victorians. The Government will enforce a 25 per cent red tape reduction target and make sure all government agencies report on their progress. This will make it easier for people to create and do business. To do this, the Government wants your feedback on where there are problems, and your ideas on better ways of doing things.

Public reporting

This website will publish selected ideas. It will also track progress and changes made. The Red Tape Commissioner will take up issues with the agencies and regulators responsible for the regulations. The Commissioner is particularly interested in issues that are:

a barrier to existing businesses and new businesses, or not-for-profit organisations that provide services to government;

The Department of Treasury and Finance acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of the land and acknowledges and pays respect to their Elders, past and present.